BATTLE AMONG ABORIGINES
Two Tribes Fight With Spears
(Rec. 10 p.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 14. Twenty aborigines from two tribes fought fiercely with spears, boomerangs, and nulla nullas for half an hour on Saturday night, according to reports received here today. The battle took place near Nutwood Downs cattle station, 62 miles south of Daly Waters. It-began after a lubra had claimed that the elders of a Roper river tribe had “sung” her 17-year-old son to death.
Two natives injured in the battle were flown to Darwin, where they are in hospital.
Mrs M. Hood, wife of the Nutwood Downs station manager, pedal radioed an urgent message to Alice Springs on Saturday that the natives were fighting.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27584, 15 February 1955, Page 13
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